Noah Schnapp Confirms His 'Stranger Thgs' Character Will Byers Is Gay | GQ

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• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ HAS ALWAYS HAD A GAY CHARACTER: WILL BYERS
• 'STRANGER THGS' ' NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY AFTER 'BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS'
• 'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'
• NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY
• FANS ARE CLASHG OVER THE GAY REPRENTATN ‘STRANGER THGS’

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP: WILL BYERS IS GAY AND LOV THIS FELLOW CHARACTER

Noah Schnapp is lettg the world know that his “Stranger Thgs” character, Will Byers, is gay. Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” he said Variety’s latt story. I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay.

“It’s a w for the gays”. ’s a w for the gays. A third wrote: “Stranger thgs havg an official gay character mak me so happy fally some good f**kg reprentatn!

‘STRANGER THGS’ HAS ALWAYS HAD A GAY CHARACTER: WILL BYERS

Is Will Byers gay Stranger Thgs? “Will Byers really ptur the gay teen experience, ” one Twter er claims. Now ’s 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike.

I thk is done so betifully, bee ’s so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay.”Schnapp said that Will’s “jealoy” over Mike’s relatnship wh Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) propels him to tearfully speak up. I love that moment, tly, but there was another moment earlier the season that ronated eply wh my gay self bee nfirmed that the show has not fotten a key (at least key to me) aspect of one character: Will Byers is also gay. Okay okay okay–the show don’t e out and explicly addrs , and the scene I’m talkg about may have left some viewers scratchg their heads, but to a gay like me, a gay who was 100% Will Byers when he was 14, I’ve picked up on all of the signs.

'STRANGER THGS' ' NOAH SCHNAPP COM OUT AS GAY AFTER 'BEG SRED THE CLOSET FOR 18 YEARS'

Flyg around wh all the other ltle fairi, all happy and gay! The creators didn’t fet about , and if they’re tellg a slow build story of what ’s like to be a gay kid, they’re gettg all the beats down season by season. I was also picked on for beg too sensive and beg, well, gay.

Md you, the bulli of Smyrna Middle knew I was gay almost a before I did, so ’s not like Will the Stranger Thgs character is necsarily clued to this jt yet. It’s how played out my teenage years, too, when my iends would fend me agast people llg me gay and immediately follow wh “also I don’t thk you’re gay. It’s also entirely possible that he’s not gay, or intifi wh a different orientatn entirely or no orientatn at all.

'STRANGER THGS' STAR NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS WILL BYERS IS GAY: 'HE HAS FEELGS FOR MIKE'

To me, right now, Will Byers is unmistakably a gay wag bee that’s what I unknowgly was at that pafully awkward age. The 18-year-old Stranger Thgs star me out as gay a TikTok vio on Thursday. Over the vio, Schnapp wrote, "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know'".

Over the show's four seasons, fans have repeatedly qutned whether Will was gay, wh some even cricizg the seri for not explicly statg the seemgly obv sooner.

Now 's 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike. " He later had a heart-to-heart wh his brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) where Jonathan appeared to offer his support of Will, whout ever sayg the words, "I know you're gay and I'm here. "I thk is done so betifully, bee 's so easy to make a character jt like all of a sudn be gay.

NOAH SCHNAPP CONFIRMS HIS STRANGER THGS CHARACTER WILL BYERS IS GAY

Schnapp also spoke about playg a gay character at such a young age while real life, also handlg his own personal growth and self-inty. Over the urse of the show's four seasons, fan have qutned whether Will is gay, some even cricizg the Netflix seri for not explicly statg the seemgly obv sooner.

" He later had a heart-to-heart wh his brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) where Jonathan appeared to offer his support of Will, whout ever say the words, "I know you're gay and I'm here. Schnapp also spoke about playg a gay character at such a young age while real life also handlg his own personal growth and self-inty.

Last May, when the first half of Stranger Thgs’ fourth season dropped, Noah Schnapp was vague when Variety asked if many viewers were rrect when they ferred that his character Will was gay: The actor said that Will’s sexualy was “up to the dience’s terpretatn. ” But now that the full season is out, and his feelgs for his bt iend, Mike (Fn Wolfhard), beme more overt, Schapp nfirmed Will’s homosexualy, tellg Variety that he had been ls straightforward earlier to prevent dolg out spoilers before thgs beme clear the new episos.

FANS ARE CLASHG OVER THE GAY REPRENTATN ‘STRANGER THGS’

Now ’s 100 percent clear that he is gay and he do love Mike, ” Schnapp explaed.

That release never me, but there were a few more teas that strongly suggted he's gay. "For me, Will beg gay or not is bis the pot, " he wrote at the time on Instagram.

Do beg sensive, or a loner, or a teenager who lik photography, or a girl wh red hair and big glass, make you gay? "I thk that's the bety of , that 's jt up to the dience's terpretatn, if 's Will kd of jt refg to grow up and growg up slower than his iends, or if he is really gay.